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- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Reviews John Moran's 25-year career in the orthopedic industry and his current decision whether to start a hand and foot surgery company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805026 Molecular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Donaldson Room | About
Program for entrepreneurs that ended upon his retirement in 1993. In addition to his teaching, a decade-long study of 12 mature industrial corporations led to two important books in the 1980s, Decision Making at the Top: The Shaping of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
business solutions to poverty. “One day we were talking to villagers who live on $2 a day, and the next day we were meeting with business and government leaders,” recalls Kim. Last summer he built on this experience working in Delhi with Drishtee, a for-profit company... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
effects of global talent from global product markets. Further, the emergence of the Indian software industry offers a unique experimental setting to ask whether globalization can promote convergence in corporate governance. This is... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
increasingly turn to athletes to promote their products. The marketing executives I spoke with told me they value these endorsements especially because it is getting more and more difficult to reach a wide group of consumers using... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"open fare" system; and Panera Bread runs four nonprofit "Panera Cares" locations with PWYW pricing. Oftentimes, businesses use the strategy as a promotion to get new customers, sometimes with a social tie-in for extra... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who considered situations with their eyes closed rather than open judged immoral behaviors as more unethical and moral behaviors as more ethical. In addition, considering potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
steps to promote greater access to information. Meeting such best practices would require the World Bank to: Improve the transparency of its own governance structure and decision-making; Expand the range of draft and final documents, as... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
regulatory project for the bank, which included automating risk controls and coordinating with colleagues in Peru, Argentina, and India. A promotion to corporate compliance increased the complexity of her role, exposing Margarita to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they must appear View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
to allow displaced Cambodians to return to their country after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Then it was on to Somalia, where he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and cofounded International Development Enterprises, which uses business... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
distribution of face masks and the promotion of their use, are winning strategies in this battle. As other countries begin to reopen their economies, how can they apply these lessons to combat COVID-19? Proactive testing and tracing As... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
choices. Suppose the issue is a decision to promote a successful young person to lead a significant business unit. A corporate CEO will typically solicit input from others, including the vice president of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us was working. I didn’t realize it then, but that View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
bathroom tissue manufacturer offers you a discount on its product. How much should you buy? If you stock up now, will the manufacturer have any incentive to give you a good deal later? Will your decision affect the competition between... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey